Overview
- Florencia Barboza gave an emotional account in the first closed hearing as the proceedings began, according to reports from the courthouse.
- The Juvenile Criminal Court No. 1 in La Plata scheduled eight hearings with no public or media access because the accused was a minor at the time.
- The primary defendant, who was 17 at the time of the crime, is held in preventive detention and is charged with homicide in the course of robbery, with any penalty to be decided in a subsequent cesura under youth sentencing limits.
- A second adolescent who was 14 at the time is not criminally imputable and remains under a two-year security measure in a closed facility with interdisciplinary treatment.
- Case files and witnesses state Kim was caught by her seatbelt and dragged about 15 blocks, and the autopsy cites fatal injuries consistent with multiple trauma.